A glimpse at winter cycling in Copenhagen

• New Federal Transportation rules to funnel more of the money to streetcars, bus routes and other projects that promote “livability.”
• Pennsylvania is one of nine states that are “dangerously behind” in adopting basic highway safety law.
• Editorial: My year as a woman in a city of bikes and a good local discussion about the subject
• Treehugger asks if the safety of Portland’s green bike boxes is all in our heads.
• In Pittsburgh, we want to update the city’s outdated Bicycle Plan in the near future.  The City of Los Angeles is currently going through this process, but locals think it’s weak, leading LA cyclists to create their own “Best Bike Plan”
• Also in LA, a doctor gets five years in prison for road rage against cyclists, but is this a “sea change?”
• A Post-Gazette blogger talks about how the words “green” and “sustainable” are now meaningless
• Webster’s Word of the Year 2009: Distracted Driving

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